Seoul / AFP The US government has suspended millions of dollars in funding to several organisations providing aid for Syria after discovering they were systematically overpaying Turkish companies for basic goods with the collusion of some of their staff. The US Agency for International Development’s independent government auditor said it had “established grounds resulting in the suspension of 14 ...

  Washington / AFP Barack Obama will this month become the first sitting US president to visit atomic bomb-struck Hiroshima, but the White House said he will not offer an apology for the devastating attack on the Japanese city in 1945. Obama, accompanied by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, will make the deeply symbolic visit on May 27, after attending a ...

  Munich / AFP A man killed one person and wounded three others in a knife attack at a German railway station Tuesday that prosecutors said had “an apparent extremist motive”. It is Germany’s third knife attack with an apparent extremist motivation since September. Police said they had arrested a 27-year-old German man who had slashed four people around 5 ...